The following workarounds are applicable to Lenovo Bootable Media Creator.
- When deploying Windows 2008 editions on a System x3250
M5 with or without ServeRAID C100 enabled, a blue screen might occur
- To avoid this problem, complete the following steps:
Workaround: - Open uEFI settings.
- Open the Device and I/O Ports setting.
- If the ServeRAID C100 is enabled, change the onboard
SATA ports as to RAID or IDE.
- If the ServeRAID C100 is not enabled, change
the onboard SATA ports as to IDE.
- Save the changed settings. The system will work normally when
you reboot from ServerGuide.
- The keyboard does not work when confirming to exit ToolsCenter
program
- After booting a system with bootable media created using Bootable Media Creator,
when you select to exit the program, you are prompted to confirm the
exit action. The keyboard cannot be used to confirm the exit action.
Workaround: Use the mouse to confirm the exit
action, or create the media to run in TUI mode.
- cygwin1.dll conflict
- Bootable Media Creator ships
the cygwin1.dll (version 1.5.24, renamed to cygwinz.dll),
which is required by the mkisofs.exe and cdrecord.exe utilities.
The cygwin DLL does not support multiple versions running at the same
time. You must exit all other applications that depend on cygwin1.dll before
running Bootable Media Creator on
a Microsoft Windows system.
- Bootable Media Creator might
fail to burn a CD or DVD if it runs on RHEL3 with an IDE CD-ROM or
IDE DVD-ROM
- Add hdx=ide-scsi to the boot
loader configuration file. For example: /etc/lilo.conf for
LILO or /boot/grub /menu.lst for GRUB), where hdx is
either hda, hdb, hdc,
or hdd, depending on where your CD or DVD drive is
located.
- USB flash drives that are used by Linux are not recognized by
Windows
- To enable Microsoft Windows to recognize the USB flash drive for Bootable Media Creator on
a Windows system, format the USB flash drive on a Linux system to FAT32 file
format using the mkdosfs utility. For example: mkdosfs
-I -F 32 /dev/sdb).
- Failure when burning created ISO files to CD/DVD, or created CD/DVD
fails to boot
- If you are unable to burn created ISO files to CD or DVD media,
or if the CD or DVD you have created fails to boot, try using an alternative
media writing software or use a different brand and type of media.
- IBM BladeCenter HS22
fails to boot from the SanDisk 4GB bootable USB key
- When using the SanDisk 4GB bootable USB key created by Bootable Media Creator to
boot a BladeCenter HS22 (machine type 7870), the system might boot
directly into the OS environment installed on the hard disk drive
but not boot into the USB key.
Workaround: Update
the uEFI firmware or use a Lexar USB key or a bootable CD.
- USB key automatically mounts in noexec mode
on SLES 10 sp4
- As a security measure, USB keys can be mounted in noexec mode,
which prevents executable files on the key from running. This prevents
you from using the BoMC binary,
even after using chmod to change permissions.
Workaround: Copy the binary to the hard drive
of the system, use chmod to give it proper permissions,
and execute from the hard drive.